October 24, 2007
Renewable Energy Retailing in Texas
Yes, I fully realize Wal-Mart Corporation is working overtime selling our country out to the godless and bloodthirsty ChiComs, but even so, this is pretty cool:
Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, unveiled a new store outside of Dallas, Texas that could revolutionize how the company builds and powers their stores. The experimental design combines a host of renewable energy technologies including numerous solar PV arrays, two, small wind turbines, a bio-fuel boiler to recycle and burn recovered oil from store operations and a nearly endless list of energy-saving and sustainable design principles.All it's missing is a big fleet of cool-ass HYBRID CARS in the parking lot. Ah, well, all in good time...The project represents an industry first for big box retailers. For the next three years, the company has arranged through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other partners to carefully analyze every aspect of this experiment in sustainable, big box store design. The results, if satisfying, could profoundly change the way Wal-Mart, and even the retail industry as a whole, designs, constructs, and manages buildings and their energy use.
By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 10:40 AM |
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